The book of James says religion that God
our father accepts as pure and faultless is
this to look after Orphans and widows in
their distress and to keep oneself from being
polluted by the world Next on the road
to reality embrace and share the contagious love
and care of Jesus Christ This is the
road to reality I'm Richard Buse and I'm
honored to be with you now during his
life on earth Jesus displayed an amazing heart
of outreaching love whether it was to one
hurting person or a cascade of needy people
He was actually servant to the lost and
the suffering today on the road to reality
Will be encouraged to have that same gospel
heart of outreaching concern if you're looking for
it, the needs are Everywhere from gospel for
Asia.
Here's brother KP.
You Hanan in John's gospel chapter 6 You
know the population of Canada is 26 Some
million people something like that And imagine you
can take the slums of Calcutta and Bombay
you get the entire nation of Canada Have
you ever been to one of the slums
of Bombay?
I?
have because of stinch It's so unbearable You
feel like throwing up I had closed my
nose I'd walk through the slums because I
couldn't take it who lives there rats snakes
Dogs no human beings people and God made
these people in his own image This is
what we sometimes forget Even Christ dying on
the cross in the very last of the
last seconds of his life He's looking to
the left.
He is looking to the right.
He's looking to the left He's looking to
the right somehow to see if any sign
of repentance from these criminals It was appropriate.
It was just for these two to be
crucified in this manner but not Jesus in
the midst of excruciating agony and pain He's
looking to see if he can save one
more before he give up his life and
One says Lord remember me when you come
in Paradise and the Lord said today you
will be with me What a way to
take the worst scoundrel a murderer a thief
Reprobate people shy away from that individual.
There are the stone into death.
Can you imagine?
the holy Son of God the Creator of
the universe says I embrace you today.
You are going to be with me How
much he cares about the lost and the
suffering and the needy So when you read
a passage like this, it must make us
to ask a question.
Do I?
Care about the people around me that are
hungry that are suffering those beggars those lepers
those precious children Not one not two but
millions They are slaves to matchbox making factories
They are slaves To the owners who make
those firecrackers They never experienced childhood they do
not know what it means to be a
child You see If Christianity is For me
To make me a better person if that
is the end of it.
Oh my friends.
We have missed it the call of God
When he gave to Abraham who became the
father of faith Which some of the dear
friends now use his name we are the
children of Abraham Therefore we can claim to
be rich and mighty how foolish Look about
Abraham when God said leave your father mother
everything Go to a place.
I will show you He was giving up
all the riches all the glory and everything
he had In the ancient world of the
Chaldeans, he left all and then he said
yeah, God blessed him everywhere He went truly
he did but what did God say to
him?
I will bless you and Make you a
blessing to others We are blessed so that
we can represent our loving Heavenly Father We
can represent the caring Christ to give to
help to walk to touch to heal I
want to ask you a simple question 24
hours a day you have how much of
the time you think about yourself and your
father your mother or your Family your children
how much of the time you think about
someone else in the neighborhood in the slum
or in that village?
Or people work with you How much time
you pray of that time of prayer?
How much time do you pray and Cry
and weep for those around you that do
not know about Jesus.
They have no hope they have no understanding
Do you have a list of things that
he pray for out of that?
How many of those lists?
those lines those names those requests Represent somebody
else or is it all about you and
the disciples must learn This reason why Jesus
said unless you love me more than father
mother son and daughter He didn't stop there.
He didn't stop there and your own life.
You cannot be my disciple It is not
simply talking about self-denial A Lot of
people out there incredible Examples of self-denial
they don't have to be Christians necessarily They
give up their house their clothes their money
and their families and all that I mean
they give up all this stuff, you know,
they they walk away from all these things
They don't care but Christ is calling for
something else He's calling for denying ourselves It
is me See myself not as the most
important person, but rather I see I am
only a means a vessel to bless others
I don't hold myself my reputation my what
I want a supreme importance but somebody else
There's a fantastic illustration a real story That
I think would help to make us understand
this years ago when William Booth was alive
the founder of Salvation Army one of the
most significant movement the world has ever known
or witnessed a Movement that touched the lives
of millions Around the world they cared for
the poor and the needy and the downtrodden
When he was an old man He couldn't
travel much anymore Often he was ill They
had a major conference call for about 5
,000 of his followers and William Booth was
supposed to be the keynote speaker, but due
to his physical limitations and his Illness, he
could not go So what is the next
thing to do he sent a cable a
telegram with the message that they must read
On his behalf to the gathering So the
MC came up and he said our leader
William Booth couldn't be here, but he sent
The message that he was going to preach
To us They were quite curious and anxious
Wow our leader couldn't be here, but he
sent a message Now they're getting ready to
listen to a long message and the master
of ceremony he opened the cable He read
it only one word in it Others, that's
all others This man who could preach maybe
eight ten hours non-stop he didn't need
to do that He was saying to his
followers Keep this in mind.
It is not you.
It is not me That is important others
others others and Jesus without Talking to Philip
or Andrew or anybody Jesus without even dealing
with a little boy with a Few pieces
of bread and the little fish Jesus being
God.
He didn't need any of these people He
didn't need the little boy.
He didn't need his bread.
He didn't need his fish.
He didn't need Andrew He didn't need Philip.
He didn't need any of these people the
Bible says In the beginning was the word
and the word was with God and the
word logos was God all things were made
by him and nothing nothing that is seen
and Things we cannot see the visible and
invisible.
Nothing was made without him.
He made all things in eternity past He
stands or nothing and simply speaks.
Let there be who did it the Lord
Jesus Christ now here on He didn't need
any of these people with 5,000 50
Baba 50 million no problem.
He can feed them all but that's not
what he's doing.
He's telling them you take care of this
Philip what about this?
They are hungry.
You do something about it What a world?
What a nation That was KP Johanan on
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we heard of Christ's love for the crowds
in the first half of our message But
as we rejoin KP now, we see Christ
reaching out towards one individual I Have traveled
all over this land eight years.
I Have seen it and felt it and
touched it slept on the roadside traveled in
Trains in those days, no second class third
class the Gandhi class.
I Stood in the toilet traveling from Delhi
to Bombay Not one centimeter space in the
train I have seen the stinch the chickens
and the goats people carry the old the
wrinkled face the little babies Having lived in
Bombay and working on the streets of Bombay.
I have seen the suffering the VT station
24 hours ocean of people flowing No, stop
It's everywhere But how many times I saw
it but I walked away they became just
people not individuals and I had to pray
Honestly, I have to pray Oh God, please
touch my heart Give me your compassion.
Let me see them the way you see
them Lord Please God, let me See God
will never force you to do anything You
will seek me and you'll find me when
you search for me with all your heart
in some of my writings I Use this
illustration that happened to me some years ago
I Was In Bombay Trying to find my
way to catch my flight and I had
a few hours and If you ever been
to Bombay, you will know what I'm talking
about You just don't walk onto the road.
You will get killed before you can think
and blink your eye because cars They they
go, you know this way and that way
like lightning you just you just wait and
There I was but if you know Bombay
you'll find no matter where you find yourself
on the streets You will find a whole
bunch of people around you the street beggars
especially little children, I Mean little children three
or four year old kids and seven eight
nine year old kids Half-naked wearing rags
holes all over and they come sob sob
sob and then mothers Skin and bone mothers
carrying their babies naked little babies with blotted
stomachs and the mother hardly wears enough clothes
because it's all torn up and whole bunch
of them and I didn't have time to
deal with Thousands of these people everywhere So
I was waiting for the light to turn
green I was turn-faced Very sober almost
angry looking so they will leave me alone
and now the light turned yellow Then it
turns green.
But before I could walk I Hear this
voice from behind me Sir Please give me
something.
I have no one No father.
My mother is sick.
I have younger brother.
We are hungry Give me some money to
buy some bread, please sir And I turned
around and here this young girl stands.
She must be seven or eight years old.
I Do not exaggerate about the story.
I'm not making any more than this What
I witnessed Seldom have I seen Such beautiful
face big brown eyes Her oval shape face
a sweet child Stands there like this All
the sudden I Realized my goodness I'm looking
at a precious little girl And I put
my hand in my pocket and took all
the money I can find everything and I
gave it to her Of course the light
Turned red and then again I had to
wait then I began to walk.
I never forgot this experience It is as
fresh as today.
It was as though Christ himself began to
walk with me On that busy street and
he began to talk So, what do you
think about the little girl is her life
as precious as valuable and dear as your
daughter It had to be God talking Because
I was not thinking about that All the
sudden my mind race back to the United
States where my daughter Her own room her
own nice bed Every week her bedsheet changed
the pillow cover changed fresh clothes We care
about her We pray for her She reads
she writes the question What about this little
poor girl?
Of course being a believer in Christ.
I must respond and say yes Oh, I
do I do care and her life is
as valuable as precious and dear Just as
my own daughter the strange thing She didn't
ask me one more question.
I think he walked away and I was
left alone to think Why?
Why?
Why on earth?
God allowed you to have a few years
to live on earth If heaven is the
only reason for our salvation and knowing Christ
Baba, it is much better the moment you
get saved somehow rapture take place or God,
you know, just Kill you and snatch you
away do something.
Why go through all the mess all the
problems Tell you he left us here for
one reason as the father has sent Me
to care to cry to touch to feel
to die for others I am sending you
this is the reason but do I understand
it?
How come I must go through this Crisis
experience on the street of Bombay for me
to come to understand this can't I see
the multitudes?
Don't I see this on the television in
the newspapers?
The families that come in suicide as a
pack But the question is there any room
in me?
to care but then The amazing thing is
this in a land Such as this With
such a large massive Population rejection loneliness and
hopelessness What am I talking about?
You see who are these people?
Some of you don't even understand We don't
want to talk about it.
These are the 300 million Dalits the untouchables
and By the way, God is always on
the side of the broken poor needy illiterate
lost helpless and The Lord is still telling
us as he told Philip Philip What do
you think we shall do?
He didn't need to ask Philip, but he
must ask him God can do everything but
he is inviting us his body his people
to care With our prayers without giving with
our going with whatever we can do They
need the Lord.
They need to know Jesus.
They need to know his compassion They need
to know that Jesus said if the Son
of Man will give you freedom.
You are free indeed They need to know
that he died on the cross.
He shed his blood and their sins are
forgiven There is hope there is healing.
They need to know the gospel is a
good news.
It is not just for me But it
is for others But we are the agents
and we must be we must care we
must reject a Gospel that is so self
-centered We must embrace the gospel of the
cross and this is where Jesus can Manifest
his grace his mercy today through our lives
touching and changing people who are need My
brothers and my sisters I want you to
know I'm not trying to tell you I'm
better than somebody else No, but I can
tell you it is rare to find Christian
workers who will sell their house their land
and their properties to serve God It is
all a means to make money It is
all about how they can make the life
better In The recent times I've been reading
through the four Gospels Matthew Mark Luke and
John with the pencil You know what?
I'm reading for I want to see Jesus
the man not God Yes, he's God, but
I don't want to see him.
I want to see him as a man
The man who was tired the man who
was tempted the man who was weary the
man who was thirsty the man who was
Accusation the man who was misunderstood.
I want to see the man how he
lived I tell you what, I've been deeply
convicted as I read about my Jesus How
I must live It's absolutely amazing Absolutely amazing.
Did you know Jesus never defended himself?
When he could have answered and walk away
he would keep quiet.
I saw Him as a man he could
be God just pick one word and wipe
out the whole world, but as a lamb
he suffered and I see That and say
am I like that?
so when I talk about John's gospel chapter
6 and the Multitudes the response of Christ
and the disciple and all that I want
you to know I'm not trying to tell
you something So that I can fill my
time and give you a message No, I'm
not a professional preacher I know I'm terribly
concerned about you becoming Authentic like Jesus This
has been the road to reality where today
we've been developing this burning desire to know
Jesus and to reach out with his love
And care for others KP.
Ohannon is the founder and director of gospel
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